Serge Lutens L’Orpheline ~ new fragrance

L'Orpheline was reportedly inspired by ashes and the notes include incense and musk, among others.

Serge Lutens L'Orpheline is available now in Paris at the Palais Royal - Serge Lutens; 50 ml Eau de Parfum €99. It will reportedly be available at the Serge Lutens website tomorrow and at retailers in September.

The video:

Update: the image at top is a still from the film, and the lighting makes the bottle look "decorated" when in fact I'm nearly sure it's the "standard" export bottle.

Another update: an image of the bottle (just above), and the description of the fragrance from the Serge Lutens website: "Fragile but whole. Its name hints at a break but before the fissures show, its first two syllable [sic] conjure Orpheus, a poet who could charm even stones."

Oh, but I would not assume those are the main notes at all. They just happen to be 2 notes mentioned in the only reasonably official place that mentioned any notes at all. You know Uncle Serge does not like us to talk about notes!

Persolaise has a review up already, and it sounds little like Gris Clair:

Although today I’m feeling repentant about yesterday’s attack, lol! It is quite a moody evocative piece and may make more sense in French. I also like its whimsical tone…

des esseintessays:

1 July 2014 at 7:47 pm

I often fall for perfumes which has a melanholic, instrospective feel them. There aren’t many but for instance Apred L’Ondee and Messe de Minuit comes to mind. Not only their names (if I’m not fooling myself, which is easy when it comes to something as abstract as fragrance), but in they make me feel.
L’Orpheline sounds more promising than his last 3-4 ones.

I fell instantly and madly in love with Jeux de Peau. Nothing he’s released since then has interested me in the least, not even Vitriol d’Oeillet (and carnations are my most beloved flower). Santal Majuscule was nice enough but completely unoriginal. It’s been mostly duds for a while now.

It does come in the “standard” export bottle.
I was in Paris last week and by chance happened to go to the Lutens shop at Palais Royal on Saturday afternoon which coincided with L’Orpheline’s launch event and I was invited to go upstairs to test it, lucky me! I am a ditherer so could not decide right away but I went back on Monday morning before flying home and bought a bottle…
Unfortunately I am not very good at describing perfumes and not familiar enough with Lutens’s line to make comparisons but the assistant mentioned ash and incense when she described it to me. I would say it is quite subdued compared to some of Lutens’s other fragrances which suits me, but I find it quite comforting and less “wintry” than my favourite Lutens, Feminite du Bois.